Chapter 60: Divine Sword Of King Shura (1/2)

Chapter 60: Divine Sword of King Shura (3)

Translator: hwarang

Editor: Klaurem

The next day I received the information about the man who was with Sa Ma Chun.

His name was Jo Byuk. He was originally a rogue expert who caught the attention of Sa Ma Chun and became his long-serving right-hand man.

He did all sorts of illegal things including a.s.sa.s.sination, but he was able to get out using Heavenly Dao Gate’s name. There was other information about him but this was the most pivotal piece of information. Another bit of important information that I found was when he was still a rogue expert there were three mercenaries with him. Since they followed him like shadows, they were given the name the Three Rogues. If Jo Byuk was going to do something, he would most definitely use these three individuals.

So I went back to the Heavenly Net Guild to investigate these three individuals. I told them to investigate the three as soon as possible. I didn’t need to know their skills, just where they were and how they looked. As I wanted to know this information faster than normal, I had to spend twice as much money. However, since it was something related to Baek Pyo, I didn’t feel bad about spending all of my money. Even if I went broke, I wouldn’t regret it.

I needed to take care of this very carefully. Since Sa Ma Chun is one the pillars of the Alliance I couldn’t afford to get involved with him just yet.

Baek Pyo welcomed me wholeheartedly again today, “You came again today.”

“Didn’t I tell you I was going to make you rich?”

“Haha, I should open up another location.”

I felt that I needed to get closer to Baek Pyo for the future, so I told him everything about me. That I was the heir of the Byuk Clan in the San Dong City. As well as how I wanted to expand our clan and change the Kang Ho.

I was telling him these things since I could have had to bring him and his family back to San Dong with me.

The most important thing about a relations.h.i.+p is trust. You can’t make strong relations.h.i.+ps if you are distrustful from the beginning. Also Baek Pyo could get the wrong idea of me if I lied to him so I decided to be truthful with him.

This was a very important task for me since this will allow to me to direct a dangerous situation away from him while building my relations.h.i.+p with him.

“Young master Byuk, you should be in your prime springtime of youth.”

It seemed that Baek Pyo was jealous of my youth.

“You are still young yourself, aren’t you?”

“Haha, my springtime of youth pa.s.sed by many springs ago.”

“I don’t think one's age is important, what is more important is to have a youthful heart.”

“Is it?”

“Saying things like this makes me sound like an old man.”

“No. There are many aspects about you young master Byuk that makes you different from your peers.”

“So you are saying that I am old?”

Embarra.s.sed, Baek Pyo said, “That’s not what I meant. I mean that there is something about you that makes you seem different from others.”

Of course, I would be different than others. Do you know how much I care about you? Baek Pyo-ya! I wanted to cry out his name and hug him, but I cannot do that right now.

“That is a compliment, right?”

“Of course.”

“Then, I will drink toyour good intention. Please bring me some alcohol.”

There were some customers in the evening. I carefully inspected them to see if they were dangerous characters, but it seemed they were normal customers. So, I drank late into the evening and went back to my inn.

***

The next day I got the information about the three mercenaries from the Heavenly Net Guild. They told me that the three of them were on their way to Mu Han. This only verified my prediction. They wouldn’t come to Mu Han without orders, meaning that they were on their way to a.s.sist Jo Byuk with whatever he was going to do.

The Three Rogues must be individuals who were crueler than Jo Byuk since they were mercenaries.

I grew angrier at Jo Byuk and Sa Ma Chun.

So, they want to use these dirty b.a.s.t.a.r.ds to do their dirty work for them, huh?

However I had to calm my heart. There was sc.u.m everywhere in Kang Ho. What I had to do now was not get angry but think of a way to protect Baek Pyo.

Their expected time of arrival was five days from now. Meaning I had to take care of this within those five days, and if I cannot do that then I’ll just have to eliminate them when they arrive. Eliminating them wouldn’t be hard, but Baek Pyo would take the blame for it. So I had to take care of this as cleanly as possible.

After the person from Heavenly Net Guild left, I was deep in thought while I was strolling down the street.

In my last life, if I had a problem I would usually take a stroll while thinking of some ways to solve it. Thinking like this reminded me how much I missed Kal Sa Ryang.

How much easier would my life be if Kal Sa Ryang was by my side right now?

I recalled a conversation that I had with him before.

“How can you be so brilliant?”

“You praise me too much sir.”

“No need to be humble.”

“The more complex the problem, the simpler the solution.”

“Do you know, by saying something like that you are belittling us even more. It may be simple to you, but for us we wouldn’t have even thought of something like that.”

If the solution to this problem was simple as well, what would it be?

The problem is Sa Ma Chun wanted the King Shura’s Divine Sword. He was suspecting that Baek Pyo had it, and Baek Pyo did have it.

The solution to this problem was to…prove that Baek Pyo doesn’t have King Shura’s Divine Sword.

But how?

However, that wasn’t the only problem. Even if Baek Pyo got out of this unscathed, Sa Ma Chun would suspect Kal Sa Ryang even more. And King Shura’s Divine Sword was too precious to hand off to them…

Then something came to my mind. What if I made them believe King Shura’s Divine Sword wasn’t there from the start? What if I made them think that I, the previous mengju, got rid of the weapon?

I was standing still on the street deep in thought.

How long did I stay there for?

When I started moving again. It was not a contemplative step, but a step towards my plan.

***

The manager of the Heavenly Net Guild, Ban Suh Jung, was silently staring at her tea.

“What are you thinking so hard about?”

The Chef from inside the kitchen approached her.  The Chef was her guard as well an elder of the Heavenly Net Guild, and his name was Elder Bing.

Elder Bing had taken care of Ban Suh Jung ever since she was little. The relations.h.i.+p between the two of them was like that of a grandfather and granddaughter. He knew what she was thinking just by looking at her.

“Someone from the Murim Alliance called to meet with me.”

“Was it Ma Bong Gi? What does that old rat want?”

Elder Bing knew everything about Ma Bong Gi, and he hated that old rat.